"Just one thing after another" - Unknown

One Film From Every Country

When I finished the IMDB Top 250 I thought why not widen my perspective to include a more global selection. This is my personal diary & guidebook. The IMDB list is heavily slanted towards American movies and many of my favorites come from countries like Guinea-Bissau, Japan, Burkina Faso, Argentina, Taiwan, etc.

So why not see at least one movie from every country in the world. I think it will be inspiring and perhaps even insightful, especially looking at films from the small countries like my own Estonia. There’s 193 countries at the UN so this is my geographic definition — but obviously I’m open for movies from other areas and here I’m already including places like the Gibraltar and Greenland that are not countries per se but do have a distinct (film) culture. I'm also including short films and documentaries because features were never made in a bunch of countries. So here goes my list in an alphabetic order.

Others have attempted to select the best film from each country you can Google. I'm including at least one or more that I like. Where I have not seen a film yet (but you have) why not leave a suggestion on Twitter.

Azerbaijan

Bahamas

Bahrain

Nothing.

Bangladesh

Mor Thengary (My Bicycle) directed by Aung Rakhine

Barbados

Hit for Six (2007) dir. by Alison Saunders-Franklyn and Payday (2014) dir. by Selwyne Browne are the only local productions I know of but haven't seen. Hollywood studios have used Barbados as a location for various films, including Island in the Sun (1957) and The Tamarind Seed (1974).

Niue

Niue: This Is Your Land (2005; Documentary; Dir. Mella Lahina). Check it out for free on Vimeo.

Norway

Kon Tiki
Limbo

Oman

Al-boom (2006; Dir. Khaled Abdul Raheem Al-Zadjali)

Pakistan

Hum... I guess I've probably seen something I've forgotten.

Palau

Again, very little local film production. Foreign productions: You can see the Palau seas in the 40min 1995 IMAX documentary The Living Sea Dir. by Greg MacGillivray. There's also 1968 WW2 drama Hell in the Pacific Dir. by John Boorman.

Sierra Leone

Singapore

As I’m moving to Taiwan, I’ll be sure to watch some movies from Singapore as well.

Slovakia

Probably something I've forgotten.

Slovenia

Slovenka (2009; Dir. Damjan Kozole)

Solomon Islands

As with most of the small island countries, there's next to no local film production. However, as it's an attractive location, we have a couple of films by foreigners.

A Passage to Anuta (2014; Dir: Jacob Ells) -- Made by a dude from California this is short film of a passage from Majuro in the Marshall Islands, to Anuta, the eastern most island of the Solomon Islands.

Uruguay

Uzbekistan

Vanuatu

There's very little film production in Vanuatu and the movies that have been produced are foreign productions like Randal Kleiser's 1980 drama The Blue Lagoon, french 2007 pseudo-anthropological documentary God Is American (Dir. Richard Martin Jordan) and Australian 1990 drama Till There Was You (Dir. John Seale). I'm waiting for movies from local writers, directors and producers.